How to Return partial view of another controller by controller

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I have an XXX cshtml file in a Views ABC folder  Its controller is ABC  I also have an action method in my DEF controller that return a Partialview  XXX    xyzmodel   I get a  view not found  error   How to call that view from other controller

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Simply you could use   PartialView     ABC XXX

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The control searches for a view in the following order    First in shared folder Then in the folder matching the current controller  in your case it s Views DEF    As you do not have xxx cshtml in those locations  it returns a  view not found  error   Solution  You can use the complete path of your view   Like   PartialView    views ABC XXX cshtml   zyxmodel

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Normally the views belong with a specific matching controller that supports its data requirements  or the view belongs in the Views Shared folder if shared between controllers  hence the name      Answer   but not recommended - see below    You can refer to views partial views from another controller  by specifying the full path  including extension  like   return PartialView    views ABC XXX cshtml   zyxmodel     or a relative path  no extension   based on the answer by  Max Toro   return PartialView     ABC XXX   zyxmodel     BUT THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA ANYWAY   Note  These are the only two syntax that work  not ABC  XXX or ABC XXX or any other variation as those are all relative paths and do not find a match    Better Alternatives   You can use Html Renderpartial in your view instead  but it requires the extension as well   Html RenderPartial    Views ControllerName ViewName cshtml   modeldata     Use  Html Partial for inline Razor syntax    Html Partial    Views ControllerName ViewName cshtml   modeldata    You can use the    controller view syntax with no extension  again credit to  Max Toro     Html Partial     ControllerName ViewName   modeldata    Note  Apparently RenderPartial is slightly faster than Partial  but that is not important   If you want to actually call the other controller  use    Html Action  action    controller   parameters    Recommended solution   Html Action  My personal preference is to use  Html Action as it allows each controller to manage its own views  rather than cross-referencing views from other controllers  which leads to a large spaghetti-like mess    You would normally pass just the required key values  like any other view  e g  for your example    Html Action  XXX    ABC   new  id   model xyzId      This will execute the ABC XXX action and render the result in-place  This allows the views and controllers to remain separately self-contained  i e  reusable    Update Sep 2014   I have just hit a situation where I could not use  Html Action  but needed to create a view path based on a action and controller names  To that end I added this simple View extension method to UrlHelper so you can say return PartialView Url View  actionName    controllerName    modelData    public static class UrlHelperExtension            lt summary gt          Return a view path based on an action name and controller name          lt  summary gt           lt param name  url  gt Context for extension method lt  param gt           lt param name  action  gt Action name lt  param gt           lt param name  controller  gt Controller name lt  param gt           lt returns gt A string in the form    views  controller   action  cshtml lt  returns gt      public static string View this UrlHelper url  string action  string controller                return string Format    Views  1   0  cshtml   action  controller

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